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Wi'IAT IS I I AT Pi NESS ?
IT is net Genius ? No ; bis rays
Art f?rcer then the comet's blaze.
That filings its fiery threats abroad.
Through Heaven's illimitable read.
day, is it rank ? alas ! its pow'r
Is chequer'd like an April hour
Hud, fir,rote by dijfipaticn'sfiway.
The lifie of it is filer unk away.
It can't be beauty ; for her charms
Are circled fin I I with wild Harms ;
• With trailer zvifihes, fancied truth,
To mock her unfiufipicious ycuth.
Is it the pen reus fcul? ah nc !
,r Jis fiunp by cue continu'd woe ;
Blcfijmgs abufied, and worth date ;
Sowing all good, but reaping late.
His not perception ; for her dart
But pierces the imperfett heart ;
And firm credulity, with pc.in,
Plucks confiidence rep fie d in vain.
Ah! tell me where the Goddfis
dwells confefi,
That I may woo her to this bleed
ing hreaft.
Fatal efifeds of GAMING.
MISS Frances Braddock was
tlie admiration of every police
• circle. Her perfon was elegant,
her face beautiful, and her mind
accomplifhed.
She unhappily fpent a feafon
at Bath.—The whole beaumende
courted her acquaintance : flie
gave the ton not only to the
tafhion, but to the fentiments cf
eveiy aflembly. Her tafte was
admirable : her wit was brilliant.
-Her father, at his death, be
queathed twelve thoufand pounds
between her and her filler, bc
fides a confidcrable fum to her
brother, the late general Brad
•dock, who was cut off with his
party, on an expedition againfl
the French and Indians.
Four years after the death of
her father, fhc loft her filler, by
which her fortune was doubled ;
but alas! in the courfe of a month,
by a conftant application to cards,
fhe loft the whole.
She. fell under the infatuation
of a confidence in her own opi
nion. She conceived thatjudg
menr was f flicient, being total
ly ignorant of unfair practice.
Her misfortune preyed upon
her mind : nor did flie commu
nicate the caufe, even to her
moft confidential friends for a
confiuerable time ; till at laft her
in l nd being unequal to ftruggle
with accumulating ad verflty, fhe
declared to an intimate female,
that the world fhould never be
fen Able ot her neceffities, howe
ver extreme they might be.
Notwithstanding her caution,
her poverty became known
and her fcnfibility was daily in
jured by die real and fiftitious
condolence of licr acquaintance,
which ftimuiated her to the rnfli
refolve of terminating her anxie
ty, by putting an end to her ex
igence.
On the. night of perpetrating
the aft of filicide, flie retired to
her chamber, in apparent good
hcahh, and in full poffellion of
her fenfes. Her attendants left
her ia bed, with a candle lighted,
j rs v-r.s rfval i and having lock-
I td the door, jut the key under
it.
Mifs Braddock had always
opened her chamber doer in the
mornirg to admit he r attendants ;
hut the next mornirg, the maid
coining as ufual, and not hearing
her miftrtfs flir, retired, ’till near
! two o’clock in the afternoon,
| when being alarmed at receiving
no anfwer to her calling, flie
employed a man to climb in at
the window, when the horrid
cataftrophe of her miftrefs was
diftovered : and the following
fact appeared in the evidence,
upon the view of the coroner’s
inqurft.
After the departure of the
maid on this night, fhe got out
of bed again, and, as it is ftip
pofed, employed fome time in
reading ; as a book was difeov
tred lying upon her d re fling ta
ble. She put on a white night
gown, and pinned it over her
bread ; tied a gold and filver
girdle together; and hangedher
felf on a clofet door, in the fol
lowing manner : at one end of
the girdle, fhe tied three knots,
each about an inch afunder, that
if one flipped, another might
hold—opening the door fhe put
the knotty end over ; and then
locked it, to fccurc the girdle,
at the other end of which fhe
made an noofe ; put it about
her neck ; and dropping herfelf
off her chair, accomplifhed her
fatal purpofe. She hung with
her back to the door, and had
hold of the key with one of her
hands. he bit her tongue thro*
and had a bruife on her forehead,
iuppofed to have been
ed by the breaking of a red gir
dle, on which fhc* had tried the
firft experiment, and which'was
afterwards found in her pocket,
with a noofe upon it. The co
roner’s inqueft being called, they
returned their vcrdift, non compos
mentis.
On the day after, fhc was de
cently buried in the Abbey
church, by the fide of her brave
old father, who happily did not
live to weep over the misfor
tunes of his children. In her
window were found written the
following lines ;
Q death ! thoupleafing end. to hu
man wee !
Thou cure fer lifie ! thou great eft
good below !
Still may'ft thou fly the coward and
the filave.
And thy fief t ft umbers only llefis the
brave.
Thus, by an aft of ft If- mur
der, or of madnefs, a young la
dy, in the 23d year of her age,
in the full pcfftffional charms,
Pen-Ability and virtue, loft her
life by an unhappy infatuation to
a fafnionable vice.
The Liberty of the Press.
; (An Extract from the French.)
" What more powerful, or
more certain means can be a
dopred in order t increafe
knowledge, than the Liberty of
the Prefs ? It is afubhmc inven
tion, which makes the ideas of
one man common to all; which
converts them into a patrimony
of every nation,; which renders
them imperifhable, and alrbofl
*.*r ■
corporeal; which has already .
fo prcdigioufly extended the
fpherc cf cur comprehenficn,
removed the barriers to the he
men mind, and undoubtedly is
preparing new prodigies for
pedefity.
“ The Liberty of the Prefs
makes the arts and iciences flou
rifh, and gives a new life to all |
the focial inftitutions: by irs I
means errors are difilpated, pre- j
judices are chafed away, opin
ions ft niggle with opinions, and
after a combat, in which they
become refined and purified,
truth at length triumphs.
“ 1 he Liberty of the Prefs
elevates the mind, gives ener
gy to talents, and difplays ge
nius.
‘‘ The Liberty of the Prefs :
is the fafeguard of political and |
civil liberty. Nothing can e- ■
< o i
qual, nothing can fupply the I
want of this fpecies of public
ccnfurc; it watches while the
law fleeps; it reft rains when the
law cannot reprefs; it denounces
to the public opinion what the
law cannot denounce to the
Courts cf iiiflice.
u The Liberty of the Prefs
and the flaveryof nations are in
compatible.”
GEORGIA.
By his J loner David E m a n u e l ,
Prefident of the Senate , and '
commander in chief of the army
and navy cf this fate, and of
the militia thereof.
A PROCLAMATION.
W’TIMREAS’n and bv an
Acf, entitled " an At!
to repeal an Ordinance, pa fled
at Augulb, the 2fi:h of January,
1700, To far as rclpeds the fixing
the Seat of the Univcrfity of this
fate ; and an Act for the more
full and complete eftabiifhrr.cnt
of a Public Seat of LcarniApn
this Rate, fo far as relpedfcufhe
appointment cf Truftecs, palled
at Savannah the 27th of anuary,
and to appoint a Board
of Truftces, and to define the
boa d of Vifitors, and to on
a permanent Se t fot the Lid
Univerfry palled th.‘ sth day
of December, in the year eigh
teen hundred, it is ei.atle
/ *• m
“ Baldwin, Hugh
Law Ton, Beftjamin Taiiafeno,
foltph Clay, jun. James [ack
lon, John Twiggs, John Clarke,
(of Wilkes) ti e Kev. Robert M #
Cunningham, John Mi ledge,
[ofiah i'ainall, jun. Ferdinand
O’Neal, John Stewart, and
James M Neil, fhall compofc
the Boa id of j rupees ; whole
duty it fhall be to carry this in
dilution completely into euecT"
And it is further enadfed
“ That the Governor, the Judges
of the Superior Courts, the Pre.
fidentof the Senate* the Speaker
oi the Houle of Reprefent lives,
and the Senatois (rom the d.ffer
ent Counties (except the Coun- |
ties in which rhe Governor, the j
judges, the Prefident of theSe- !
nate, and Speaker of the Houfe
of Representatives for the time
being (hail refide) fliall form a
Board of Vifitois, whole duty |
it fhall be to Taper intend and |
regulate the literature cf this j
flatc ; and in particular of the |
Public Scat of Learning/*
And whereas I he General Af*
fcn.My jwfitd a joint in',! u .; nr
amhoiizirg md ctrpcivriit.g ( j,‘ c
Governor to Blue his proclama
tion, requiring the members of
the Senatus Arr.dernirus of the
Univcrfity of Georgia, to con
vene at Lcuifville, between the
teims of the Superior Courts
to take under their confideratioti
and adopt luch meafures as rnav
heft promote the oh;efts of rhaf
inflitution—“ And ihat body
their conventional afkmblaga
dtuing the fi ling of the J a fc
i cgiflature, having frxed upon
loh ah Meigs, efq. then profdfor
of Yale College, in the 1! te of
Connecticut, as prefiding p ro .
Mo. of the I mverfity f .f t j, e
tiafeof Georgia, who gratefully
attentive to the call h.is anivtd
with his family among us, and
per (bn ally notified rh< Executive
thereof, and of his defhe io
commence on the duties allotted
him.
1 have therefore thought fit
to iffue this my proclamation,
requiting the attendan t as weil
of the m* mbets of rlie laid Board
of Vi fi tors as of the mem hers
of the Board of \ ruflees of the
Univeifiry of this date, at the
Statc-Hoafe, in omlville. on
Monday the 15 b day cf [ur.c
next, then and there to form the
henatus Acaclernicus, and .10
proceed on the important ciu
tics of the inltuunon acco ditfn
iy.
Given under my handy and the
. Great Seal cf this fate , at
the State Hcujc , in Lent; -
ville 9 this qth day cf April,
in the year cf cur Lcrd y
eighteen hundred and err,
cind of American Independ
ence the twenty-fifth.
DAVID EMANUEL.
By the Prefident and Com
mander in chief,
Thc- m as John's©n,
Deputy Secretary of Bate,
God fave the fate.
% NOT I C E
Thurfday the cB:h day
or Mav next, will herx
pofed to (ale at public ou'C'v,
at the houfe* lately occupied by
Doftor fames Boyd fhavpe, in
the town of Way nefbo lough ;
the whole cf the PERSONAL
ESTATE of rh - fatd James B.
Sharpe, dfreaffd ; confining of
a well chofen aflertment of Me
dicine and Shop Furniture a
few articles of Houlehold and
Kitchen Furniture, a fm dl fio< k
of Cattle. Hogs and Goats.—-
Six months credit will Vie given,
the purchafers giving bond or
notes with approved f-cutityto
the adminiflraror :—Who fe
quefts all pe?(ons having de
mands on the eftate, or againft
the deceafed, to render them
properly atrefted, and thofe in
debted, to make payment with
out delay, to
Fred. Shubart, Adir/r.
Ap»i! 2, 1801.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND
FOR SALE,
At the Louifville Gazette Print
ing Office, the
ACTS
PASSED BY THE VAST
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
A larch 12, 1801.